Furniture Footballers Football's All-Furniture XI - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Furniture Footballers? Soccerlens.com senior writer Eddie Griffin looks at football names that sound like your average household furniture.

One could fill a book or three on all of the reasons to love sports, but one of the greatest things about sports, from baseball to football, to the other football, the other football, the other football, and the other football, is that they give us so many conversation topics and lasting memories.

Indonesia Super League
PSPS v Persisam 2-1 (Herman Dzumafo, M Isnaini; Johan yoga Utama) 9,665
1 - PSPS 5 3 0 2 9-6 92 - Sriwijaya 4 3 0 1 7-4 93 - Persisam 5 3 0 2 8-5 94 - Persib 4 2 2 0 6-4 8
Divisi Utama (LI)
Persip v PSGL 3-0 (Wahyu Tri Harjanto, Nurcoyo 2) 5,215PSIM v Persih 2-0 (Nova Zaenal, Emile Lingkers) 15,267Persebaya v Persita 1-0 (Richard Obiora) 597PS Bengkulu v Persiku 0-0 3,000Persitara v Persis 4-1 (Michel Adolfo De Souza, Muhamed, Firman Septian, Ramli; Bahroni Fadli) 2,735PSBS Biak v Persepam 1-3 (Rumwaopen; Sudirman 2, Martial Poungoue Nz) 2,015Perseru v Barito Putra 0-1 (Amirul Mukminin) 600Persid v Persekam 1-0 (Iswanto) 2,000Sumbawa Barat v Persigo 2-1 (Andre Levandy, Saddam Husain; Wawan Bikin) 6,125

With Sunday's game against Aston Villa going ahead around 2pm, I can't help feeling that its a big test of our top four credentials this weekend.Alex McLeish has got Aston Villa playing very well again.But he has to do without Gabby Agbonlahor due to picking up five bookings so far this seasn.This may give vetern Emile Heskey a start againt his old club at Villa park.

Injuries to Given and Jenas saw Brad Guzan and Emile Hesky return to the field for the first time in ages. Man U got a lone goal from Phil Jones as they walk away winners, 1-0. Word also came down that Chicharito is out for a month with ligament damage.Video: FoxSports
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By Chris Wright

One to warm the cockles on this chill winter's morn, Emile Heskey going for a glorious equaliser against Manchester United yesterday, getting it wrong by about 90º and finding touch in the corner...

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Making Emile of it This video has been around for a couple of days now, but it is only right that we bring it to your attention. The video starts with Zinedine Zidane stating that he wants Heskey in his team. However, the video then takes a turn for the worse when Heskey is then [...]

You might not have been alive that last time West Brom left Villa Park with three points: it was May 11th 1979. In fairness, we've only played in the same league 12 seasons since then, which reduces the chances of losing somewhat, but then we also didn't have to endure Phil Dowd refereeing.

This is the new FIFA 12 tribute video to Aston Villa striker Emile Heskey it's not pretty and his skills are as close as ye get to the real thing! But honestly if I was him I wouldn't endorse my name to it after this.

A world where Mick McCarthy would be content Ep.10 Emile Beckenbauer by Off The Post on Mixcloud As much as we all immensely enjoyed the international break, the Premier League is back. And with it comes the Off The Post podcast, hungry for goals, starving for stats, and ready to tuck into the highs and [.

League Cup, Second Round Wanderers fight back to stay in the League Cup

• Sunday, August 24, 2011
• Venue: The Reebok
• Attendance: 6,777
• Referee: Eddie Ilderton

• Emile Sinclair [11]
• David Wheater [26]
• Tuncay Sanli [39]
• Scott Kay [70]
• Martin Petrov [73]

Macclesfield Town took an early lead to shock Bolton Wanderers who eventually saved themselves the embarrassment of begin knocked out of the competition by the League Two vistors.

When James Milner re-joined Villa from Newcastle our side was so conditioned to channel the ball down the left in search of Ashley Young that Milner struggled to get involved and spent far too much time as a spectator. That soon began to change, bit by bit, and it wasn't long before we were finally achieving the balance we'd missed for so long.

Yes, it's just pre-season. Yes, it's still early days, there's much to be done. Nevertheless, the positive signs continue. The green shoots of recovery are quite possibly poking their heads through the soil.

Darren Bent (who else?) got the only goal of the game in typically oppressive conditions in Hong Kong, but there were encouraging performances all around the pitch.

Some interesting signings during the window in Indonesia. Former Arema striker Emile Mbamba has joined strugglers Bontang. Mbamba was banned from the game in Indonesia for a lengthy period but I guess that's been quietly pushed to one side!
Pelita Jaya signed Malaysian striker Safee Sali from Selangor while Troy Hearfield and Chris Doig were also added to their squad.

Tom, Chris, Jamie, Ben, Andy Barcelona. And Lyon. A minor crisis at EFW Towers this week. After penning part one of this epic two-part series whereby five lads set out to conquer Europe in a car named Beyonce, or was it Emile? Anyway, Jamie Cutteridge was lured away by a multi-pound deal with Jonathan Wilson's new production The Blizzard (everybody is talking about it).

Houllier's much rotated side ensured their place in the draw for the 5th round of the FA Cup thanks to goals from Ciaran Clark, Robert Pires and Nathan Delfouneso, but were forced to see out just under 30 minutes with 10 men after Nathan Baker was shown a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on David Hoilett.

I'm sick of the sight of Blackburn Rovers. We've played them eight times in the last two years; four times in the cups, four times in the Premier League. Villa have a 100% record in the cups, but Blackburn have won the last three league meetings.

It's the 4th round of the FA Cup, form largely goes out the window, but for what it's worth, Villa are obviously riding high on back to back league wins for the first time this season.

The nation mourned when Emile Heskey retired from international football last year, and rightly so -for England knew that what stretched out before them was what adulterous husbands tend to refer to as a 'transitional period' when the kids finally ask why Mummy hasn't been home in nearly three weeks.

By Chris Wright

With 33-year-old Emile Heskey out of the running, 25-year-old Wayne Rooney gradually being found out as the hod carrier he really is, and 21-year-old Theo Walcott seemingly fated to be stuck in 'excited puppy in a waxed hallway' mode for the rest of his career, it's high time for England's next messianic saviour to be identified, burdened accordingly, then smeared into a fine paste under the weight of a nation's monolithically self-important footballing pretensions.